Daily Topics - Tuesday June 5th, 2012
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Decision Day...Wisconsin with live reports
Hour One: John Nichols-The Nation Magazine / Plus, Kristine Frazao-RT America
Hour Two: Andy Kroll-Mother Jones Magazine / Plus, David Shuster -Current TV & Take Action News, We Act Radio
Hour Three: Labor Rights...It's Personal - Robert Letcher, L.A. Progressive
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#2
Vortiginously ugly: having to do with vortices. Even though the stem of "vortex" is "vortic-" (so that it would have been "vorticiously"), it was apparently influenced by the existence of the word "vertiginous".
#3
I almost missed it, but this caller referred to vulture capitalists as financial masturbators.
#4
The huge 'I Stand With Walker' originate from the Americans for Prosperity'
People are finding them in their yards without permission, they take them down and they reappear.
AFP is also offering $100 to $500 if you post their sign on your property.
I suspect that's why I94 from Milwaukee to Madison (mostly farmland) has all these huge 4x8 foot signs along the road.
Yesterday, people are also being paid $11 - $13 an hour to canvass as long as they didn't sign the recall petition.
Today, they are mis-informing students and some city clerks are confused about what to do with students. Through twitter and ads (Barrett is bad for jobs), people are directed to call Barrett campaign HQ.
I still believe Barrett will win!
#5
Article about voting confusion and shenanigans in Wisconsin
http://sussex.patch.com/articles/election-protection-hotline-keeping-bus...
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re: Scott Walker recall
Scott Walker/Scott Fitzgerald have done all of these things in one year in Wisconsin:
- Reversed labor negotiation rights, when campaigned on - Passed voter ID laws designed to restrict voting (not yet in effect)
- Redistricting to favor Republicans
- Repealed equal pay for women
- Repealed abuse of women act
- Restrictions on DNR and environmental laws; (for example, DNR has 5 days to pass permits like large factory farms of 5000+ cows with hugh manure pits within site of schools, residences. These jobs go to migrant workers)
- Public schools can now teach abstinence only
- Job growth of 30K jobs currently being sold on TV ads. The same number 30K was used in RNC emails last fall in November. I received one the day after the local paper had published job losses of 7,9000 in Sept and over 11,000 in October. Theories include 30K summer jobs effectively go away after summer tourism/construction season, or 30K is gross, not net jobs, or 30K are any jobs, like one Wis company building a plant in China, adding a lot of jobs there, while laying off workers in Wis and Michigan.
- Someone who works in WI state dept. said (unconfirmed) the budget balancing was actually done the way every other governor has addressed it, by restructuring the debt.
- And everyone knows about the 1.6 B cuts to education, millions in cuts to health programs for poor women/students, assigning those dollars to corporate cuts
- The negative job loss ads attributed to Tom Barrett as mayor or Milwaukee also apply to Scott Walker who was Milwaukee County Executive (where most of the industrial jobs loss occurred) during all of the same years of governing, except the past year when he has been able to reign his pain on the rest of the state.
- What's left of the ALEC agenda that has not been passed. Welcome back to the 1950s.
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